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Originally posted by seung ju
i dunno, i thought it was proven that the earth is over a billion years old or somethin through the use of carbon dating and stuff like that. but i agree, no one can say what happened during creation b/c no one was around to watch it. but big bang theory, i dunno, that's kinda stretchin it, b/c i thought in science stuff had to have a beginning and end, so what was around to create that little spec of dust that exploded into billions of galaxies? i dunno, i'm not much of a science buff, so i might be wrong about the whole theory.
Yeah, supposedly it's proved that earth is that old. But carbon dating only goes up to like some thousand amount of years, and scientists used radiological dating to date earth. I've read some articles on it and apparently it's not completely accurate, even though the scientific community accepts it (maybe they know something that i don't?). They did a radiological test on Mt. St. Helens after the eruption of where they knew the date to be some 20 years or something. And each time they got different answers that ranged millions of years apart. In conclusion they never got close to 20 years old, and radiological dating seems to me to be too unstable to use (though if we use that and carbon dating on crime scenes i'm thinking i need to read more about it, but a christian person told me about this and i read a bunch of articles on it afterward and found it intriguing)
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05-26-2002 02:49 PM
